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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
Curating the Scientific Record: The Challenges Ahead
Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN
Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre
NERC Data Management Workshop, October 2007.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Overview
1. Open science: trends and drivers.
2. Preservation and curation choices for the scientist.
3. Implications & challenges for NERC?
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Open science: trends and drivers
?
Open data: in the public domain….
Data usability: presentation and visualisation
Sharing data: Uploads and Ratings….
?
Social networks for scientists
“Big science”: data services beyond the discipline:multi-disciplinaryand public
At the coalface: tagging & sharing workflows Astronomy, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Social Science pilots.
Universities of Manchester & Southampton
“Small science”: chemistry exemplar
Dr Cameron Neylon, STFC / Univ. Soton
“Open Notebook Science” - Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel Univ.
New cohorts of postgraduates: millennials / Google generation
Social networks mediating data-sharing
User feeds or scraping data from your hard disk….
How far can this go?
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Preservation & curation choices for the scientist
8 Preservation / Curation choices?
1. Disciplinary data centre2. Institutional / departmental / lab repository 3. Repository federation or network4. Public repository5. Web archiving service6. Commercial data store - Amazon S3 service7. Ecosystem of hosted lifebits services (Jon Udell) 8. None of these?
Disciplinary model?
Institutional model?
Crystallography repositories at the University of Southampton
CreateDeposit
Link
Curate Preserve Standards
Scientist
Funder
Collaborate Share
User
Discover Re-use
eCrystals Federation Data Deposit Model
Link
Link
Scientist
Policy AdvocacyTraining
HarvestIR Federation
Publishers
Data centres / aggregator
servicesAdvisory
Web archiving services
Commercial data store?
Microsoft Research SenseCam :
life-logging
Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, MyLifeBits ProjectHosted lifebits service
for datacasts?
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Implications & Challenges for NERC?
UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 35 Recs for JISC
Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,
Relationships: scientist, institution, data centre, user, funder, publisher
RIN April 2007
5 Principles: Roles & responsibilities, standards & QA, access, usage & credit, benefits & cost-effectiveness, preservation & sustainability
Strategic approaches & policy
What does this mean for NERC?
Data Strategy, Policy & Practice• “Strategic co-ordination with other research funding
organisations: joint strategy development”• What is the NERC position on open science?• Is NERC-funded data published on scientific social
networks?• What is NERC policy on data sharing using social networks?• Do data centres link to open data sources elsewhere? • How are science social networks embedded in the end-to-
end workflow and data capture?• Barriers? Resistance to change? NERC Culture?
“Evaluate re-purposing of datasets”: how much NERC data is re-used?
“Identify the significant properties which facilitate re-use?”
ROI implications
Data re-use
Sustainability and planning• “Commission a cost-benefit study of data curation &
preservation infrastructure”• JISC Study on Research data preservation costs (by Feb
2008)• RIN study on Economics in the life-cycle of scholarly
communications (Aug07-Jan08)• NSF / Mellon Blue Ribbon Task Force on economic
sustainability of digital preservation Co-chairs, Fran Berman (SDSC) & Brian Lavoie (OCLC) over 2 years
• NERC investment in data infrastructure should be linked to programme planning ? 5 year horizon ?
Advocacy, Training and Skills
• “Messages need to be clear and consistent” • NERC advocacy programmes?• The researcher has some curatorial responsibility• “A study is needed to examine the role & career
development of data scientists”• NERC responsibility for training, skills and professional
development• Community proxy role of the data curator?• Enhance data handling skills within the under-graduate
curriculum• Millennials as native data scientists?
• NERC partnerships: working with the DCC
• SCARP project addressing disciplinary requirements
• Data Centres Forum: exchange of experience
• Advocacy programmes targeted at disciplines
• Co-ordinating training to build workforce capacity
• New science, new knowledge: data is the key
Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Questions?
Slides will be available at :
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html